Teams face tough schedule at Brazil 2014

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By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich

October 20 – FIFA performed a complete U-turn today when they announced the  preliminary match schedule  for the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil, forcing teams to fly the length and breadth of the country.

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Andrew Warshaw: Punishments to Caribbean officials don’t add up

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Sepp Blatter has made much of the need to crack down on corruption following the highly publicised bribery scandal and a raft of other misdemeanours within his organisation. Yet there is mounting criticism of the token punishments handed out by FIFA’s Ethics Committee to those who either took or were offered bundles of cash back in May.

Just when FIFA could have made an example of the guilty Caribbean officials who attended the infamous Trinidad meeting,

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